View from the Top!

Roll out the carpet!

I have done a lot of things in my life either with others or by myself but one of the things I have never done was to install roof shingles. I looked it up on Google and found that it was a fairly straight forward process. BTW what did we do before Google?!

After learning how to do it I started to price the materials. I found that you can not buy just a few feet of the "black velvet" paper, which is not velvet at all! It is sold in large, heavy, expensive rolls, well expensive if you only need a very small amount of the large roll! I also was not sure of how many shingles came in a "package" and how heavy that was! Heavy is important to me at this point of my life!

As it happened I went to "nanny" for Joe at the time I was working on this part of the project. As I approached his house some construction workers were rolling out that most precious "black velvet"!
Learning not to be timid about asking for free stuff I went over and asked if I could perhaps buy 16 feet.
They were most gracious men and gave it to me free! I also learned how many shingles come in a pack, about 26 or 27.

Now with the "black velvet" and shingles in hand I went to the roof top to install my first roof! It went rather well but just as I was about to finish I was short 4 shingles!! Had to run to the store to pick up the extra shingles and finish before the rain began to fall. So for those of you who are taking notes it was 1 package plus 4 shingles to do the job.

The view from my first roof job was beautiful! Tivo, my faithful friend was sunning herself between the clouds and the beauty of a good job done was admired by one, me!

The shingleing of the roof was done in one afternoon on Oct 26, 2012.

The journey continues!